Hook and eye.



No. 699,!63. Patented May 6, I902.

J. FRYER.

HOOK AND EYE.

[Application filed Jan. 24. 1902.!

(No Model.)

WITNESSES fiQ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPHINE FRYER,-OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS."

"HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,163, dated May 6, 1902.

Application filed January 24,1902. Serial No. 91,097. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPHINE FRYER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks for Hooks and Eyes, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of hooks for hooks and eyes, whereby the hook may be sewed to the fabric very near the edge and by its loops only, and thus have the advantage of two thicknesses of fabric when the hem or fold is very narrow; whereby the hook may be sewed to the fabric at points only near the edge and have its rear end or tongue held down by thrusting the pointed end of one rearwardlyextending arm into the fabric; whereby means is provided for preventing the eye from slipping out of engagement with the hook; whereby provision is made for temporarily securing the hook in position by a pin, and whereby in other respects the device is improved.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the under or inner side of a piece of fabric provided with a fold or hem and having two of my hooks applied in position, one permanently by sewing and the other temporarily by a pin. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the hook in engagement with an eye and secured to the under or inner side of the fabric, the eye being secured to another piece offabric, said two pieces of fabric constituting the edges of a garment secured to each other-by a hook and eye. Fig. 3 is an end view of the hook looking from the rear. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same looking from the under side as the hook is shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents a piece of fabric provided with a hem ate and constituting the edge of a garment which is adapted to be secured to another edge of the garment, (illustrated by a piece of fabric 1) in Fig. 2.) 1

The hook consists of a single piece of metal bent into the shape shown, flattened iat cer tain points and with one end sharpened. The central portion of this metal is folded back arms cross at nearly right angles, the pointed arm D being between the arm 0 and the tongue A.

The hook is sewed to the garment near its edge by suitable thread 0, the sewing being at the flattened portions B of the two loops. The hook is secured by sewing at no other points than these, and hence can be attached to the garment very near its edge, and thus be securely fastened through two thicknesses even if the hem or fold is much narrower than indicated at a in the drawings. The rear end of the hook is attached and prevented from lifting by thrusting the pointed end D of the arm D into the fabric. The blunt end 0 of the arm 0 bears on the surface of the fabric without piercing it, and as the arm D crosses the arm 0 beneath it the eifect is for the arm 0, which bears on the fabric, to press up the central portion of the arm D toward the under side of the tongue A sufiiciently to prevent the eye, which is indicated at E in Fig. 2, from withdrawal or from becoming disengaged in any manner except by an in tentional pull on the part of the wearer or operator. The central and rear portions of the tongue are sufliciently raised to not only accommodate the eye E, but to also accommodatea pin F, which may be thrust transversely under the tongue and over the flat tened portionsB of the loops B, so that a dressmaker or fitter can by this means pin the hook temporarily to a garment, as indi cated in Fig. 1, the hook being held securely in such position by said pin and by the point ed end D.

It will readily be seen that although the thread 'which attaches the hook to the fabric is at one end of the hook only the hook is really held in position very firmly at three points -namely, at two points by thread and at one point by the pointed arm D. As a matter of fact, however, the hook rests on the fabric at four nearly equidistant points,

as the end of the arm 0 forms a portion of the supporting-base, said end being held down onto the fabric by the overlapping arm D.

Having thus fully described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described hook for hooks and eyes, comprising the wire having its central portion formed into the raised tongue A and being bent from the tongue oppositely outward and downward into the loopsB adapted to be sewed to the garment near the edge thereof; and the wire extending from the outer edges of said loops inward toward each other, and thus constituting inwardly-extending arms 0, D, said arms crossing each other at substantially right angles centrally under JOSEPHINE FRYER.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, A. N. BONNEY. 

